Posted on 05/14/2005 6:12:23 AM PDT by beyond the sea
IRVING, Texas - The moment was packed with the kind of tension usually seen only at a major. In the locker room at the Byron Nelson Championship, players huddled around the television as Tiger Woods stood over a 15-foot putt. Upstairs in the family dining area, about 60 people set down their silverware and stopped their chatter to watch. On the course, the 1,500 fans surrounding the 18th green went stone silent.
They witnessed something that had not happened on the PGA Tour in seven years and 142 tournaments.
Woods missed the cut.
"Every guy in the locker room was watching," Jesper Parnevik said. "We're not allowed to bet, but guys were offering $1,000 he would make it."
No wonder there were no takers.
Woods made a slippery 6-foot birdie putt at Torrey Pines three years ago to make the cut on the number. He made a downhill par putt from 4 feet in the Masters two years ago to do the same thing. And who can forget that 6-foot putt in the 2000 PGA Championship to force a playoff, or that 15-footer in the dark at the Presidents Cup.
Maybe that's what was so surprising about this one.
He studied the line from both sides, consulted his caddie, then stood over the ball and went through his routine. One look at the cup. Shift his feet and give it another look. A third look and pull the trigger.
The ball broke gently to the right toward the cup, then flattened out in the final 6 inches and trickled by, a dramatic end to one of the greatest streaks in sports.
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Any port in a storm
Take a look at this post, my very first on this thread...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403059/posts?page=65#65
and shove it up your @$$.....
have a nice day
who said I root for Woods? I actually would root for Nicklaus (he is from Columbus) or Mickelson......
but all 3 are better than Vijay is....and better people too....
LOL
and all he could come back with is "any port in the storm hur hur hur"
LOL!!!!
To whom it may concern, please knock off the personal stuff.
Com'on
185 posts and not one picture of Tiger's wife????
Where's pissant when we need him?????
Dimaggio, as it shows someone performing over a certain level for a pd of time is valid. Ripken did not have to hit 300 during that streak, he just had to show up.
your entire post is so stupid I dont know why I am even trying to look at it...
it compares because it was a streak. Not that he was showing up for every baseball game or that Ripken got a hit in every game for 56 straight like DiMaggio did, but they are streaks.
Do you even watch sports? Your lack of sports IQ in this topic is unquestionable....
I remember the same thing happening to the anti Bonds people prior to the truth coming out.
he hijacks a thread about an accomplishment and yet he thinks he can get away scot free?
give me a break....
You have a lot of sympathy from sports writers on that opinion. Overall it probably is the most difficult thing to do in sports because of the timing and second guessing involved. Mechanically, though, a successful golf swing is more difficult.
I was better at baseball and I did play it a lot longer than I have played golf, but I think you are both right...
overall a hitting a baseball is hard to accomplish....having a perfect golf swing is also extremely hard to do as well....
Mr. Prairie knows which words those are too. LOL
I see, tennis is a great sport because you play it and by all your best observations, you are such a fabulous person, so tennis must be a great sport. . .is that about right? So, it would also stands to reason, because such a fabulous person as you doesn't play golf, than golf must be unworthy as a sport. . .okay now I get it: you're a self-absorbed bore.
I was a pull hitter and that stays with you. It causes me to come over the top on the golf swing creating either a dead pull or a slice. The better golfers seem to have a natural hook. A more inside-out swing.
I have played tennis for two hours and been tired. I have walked 18 holes of golf and been dead tired. Of course I have more swings than the standard 72.
There are plenty of sports where you put your life on the line, e.g., boxing, football, downhill sking, surfing, and even baseball.
Two words: John Daly
Hell, I put my life on the line every time I ask permission from the War Department to play golf.
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